Davis, California, USA
May 31, 2017
Contributing to fill a critical need for trained plant breeders in Africa, the UC Davis African Plant Breeding Academy started its third class of students with a session in Nairobi, Kenya, May 15-27, 2017. The program is organized in collaboration with The African Union New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Agency and the African Orphan Crops Consortium. Over the next thirteen months, this class will spend more than 300 hours in classes, workshops and the field, training to complete this premium professional certification program.
The third class of the UC Davis African Plant Breeding Academy consists of 34 breeders, half of whom are women, representing 18 African nations: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
UPCOMING SBC COURSES
European Plant Breeding Academy, starts in October 2017
SOLD OUT – waitlist available.
http://pba.ucdavis.edu/PBA_in_Europe/
Advanced Module - Plant Breeding Academy, Davis, CA, November 7-9, 2017
http://pba.ucdavis.edu/PBA_Advanced_Module/
Seed Business 101 – Field Crops, St. Charles, IL, August 28 - September 1, 2017
Seed Business 101 – Horticulture, Davis, CA, December 4-8, 2017
http://sbc.ucdavis.edu/Courses/Seed_Business_101/
Breeding with Genomics Davis, CA, February 13-15, 2018
(http://sbc.ucdavis.edu/Courses/Breeding_with_Genomics/)
Seed Biology & Quality, Davis, CA, June 19-21, 2018
http://sbc.ucdavis.edu/Courses/Seed_Biology_and_Quality/
The Seed Biotechnology Center (SBC) was established at UC Davis in 1999 to mobilize the research, educational and outreach resources of the University of California in partnership with the seed and biotechnology industries, and to facilitate discovery and commercialization of new seed technologies for agricultural and consumer benefits.
The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), an African Union strategic framework for pan-African socio-economic development, is both a vision and a policy framework for Africa in the twenty-first century. NEPAD is a radically new intervention, spearheaded by African leaders, to address critical challenges facing the continent: poverty, development and Africa's marginalization internationally.
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